Workers get just one hour of sun a day in winter

the average worker sees just over an hour of daylight on a winter work day, a study has found.

Shorter days coupled with long working hours and brief lunch breaks mean they get less than ten hours of daylight a week during the winter months.

But with the average adult taking only a 33-minute lunch break three times a week, 77 per cent say they have days when they do not see any daylight at all.

More than three quarters said that on some weeks they do not go outside at all from Monday to Friday. even at weekends, the average adult gets only two hours and four minutes of daylight a day.

the study of 2,000 workers by vitamins firm healthspan found that during winter, eight in ten usually go to work in the dark and return home after daylight has faded.

the lack of daylight leaves just over half feeling more tired than usual and one in three had worried about having Seasonal Affective Disorder, the research revealed.